Reinforced Concrete.

Progress, Volume II, Issue I, 1 November 1906, Page 13

Reinforced Concrete.

A correspondent writes that the Patent Indented Steel Bar Company (Limited), of Queen Anne's Chambers, Westminster, has been formed for supplying a bar of special section for reinforced concrete construction. The principal feature of the bar is stated to be great adhesion to the concrete owing to the mechanical bond formed by its indented surface.

Mr. A. E. Brown, the well-known Christchurch electrician, has disposed of his business to Messrs. Scott Bros., and is now acting as manager of their electrical department.

The new building in Wellington for Messrs. J. Nathan & Co. will require 10,000 feet of conduit, for electric lighting purposes.

The General Electric Co. have just landed six G.E. 67 railway motor equipments for the Wellington Tramways. These motors are 40 h.p. each, as against the 25 h.p. motors that have been in use on all cars since the system was opened up for traffic.

In Germany goat's milk is particularly esteemed for the reason that tuberculosis is extremely rare among goats, their almost complete immunity being due, it is suggested, to the life the animals lead on the hillsides m the open air, In the kingdom of Saxony m 1894 it was reported that out of 1562 goats slaughtered only 10 were found to be tuberculous.